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Originally Posted by sexrookie
Is seafood really cheap compare to SG?
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After several years of "experiments", I can assert that there is some 3 to 1 price ratio between Singapore (places like Jumbo Seafood, East Coast Seafood Center) and Batam (places like Way Way or Windsor).
It is difficult or impossible to make an exact comparison, because you will not find exactly the same things, and also the amount of food in each dish is not necessarily the same, but at the end I see that eating alone in Singapore I can easily spend up to 100 SGD (1 chlly crab, 1 fish, 1 veggies, 1 rice, 1 juice) while in Batam I float around 350k rp (not the same list of dishes though).
Even if I take 1 or 2 girls with me, I hardly spend more tban 500k.
In Way Way, they never tried to cheat me. I don't ask the price before, but I check the bill before paying. The prices are always ok (but I cannot check that the weight of the fish has been not artificially inflated).
Another plus of Batam is that they never try to charge me 0.50 SGD for the tissues, or 2 SGD for peanuts that I DON'T WANT and I DON'T EAT
